Is accessibility required?

[skipharper]

Using the 2006 IBC, I have a second floor that is 2500 sq. ft. and is intended to be used for a day care facility within an A3. The main floor is accessible but has no day care facilities on that floor. Is the second floor required to be accessible?

 

[jar546]

New or existing, existing change of use?

Sounds like it would have a hard time NOT being accessible.

Oh Gene, where for art thou?

 

[mark handler]

SECTION 1103

SCOPING REQUIREMENTS

1103.1 Where required. Sites, buildings, structures, facilities, elements and spaces, temporary or permanent, shall be accessible to persons with physical disabilities.

1103.2.12 Day care facilities. Where a day care facility (Groups A-3, E, I-4 and R-3) is part of a dwelling unit, only the portion of the structure utilized for the day care facility is required to be accessible.

 

[skipharper]

It is an existing structure. 1103.2.12 Day care facilities. Where a day care facility (Groups A-3, E, I-4 and R-3) is part of a dwelling unit, only the portion of the structure utilized for the day care facility is required to be accessible. It is not part of a dwelling unit.

1103.1--all kinds of exceptions including under 3000 sq. ft. does not need to be part of an accessible route.

 

[Gene Boecker]

New or existing, existing change of use?Sounds like it would have a hard time NOT being accessible.

Oh Gene, where for art thou?[/QUOTE]

Hi guys!

Back from vacation - rested and not happy to be back to work - wish I was still on the beach. . . . .

but I digress.

I think exception #1 to 1104.4 applies here. It's less than 3000 SF and not a health care office or retail occupancy - nor is it a specific occupancy identified in 1108.

btw: it's consistent with exception #1 to 206.3 of the new ADAAG regs (soon to be published - I hope).

So, no. No accessibility is required onto that floor. That does not exempt them from designing the toilet rooms and pathways as being accessible. Only access to the level is exempted - not the elements on the second floor.